Author Topic: Halo 3: OSTD (Read 25426 times)

Bocsius · « **Reply #240 on:** September 23, 2009, 12:27:35 PM »

Yesterday's news in overall gameplay? I don't really believe so (although, again, I'm not a fan of ODST's mechanics at all). But it has lost its luster from a narrative standpoint. Mankind survived, the Covenant missed the tail of their comet, yadda yadda yadda. There's nothing left to draw me into the universe. And I can't say I have much interest in Reach at this point. The Covenant evolved into such an uninteresting villain, I don't particularly care about going back and exploring the struggle further, and ODST is underscoring that point.

My advice is to leave the Halo universe except for multiplayer and start something new and hopefully do a better job at completing the story next time.

Actually, my advice is to leave multiplayer alone except for adding a custom games search and filter so I can find game types and rules that I enjoy playing.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #241 on:** September 23, 2009, 08:24:48 PM »

I liked the outdoor level in the warthog. Good old school halo. I only got 5/6 for the Wraith Killer achivement though, I hope I don't have to do the level again to get 6

demi · « **Reply #242 on:** September 23, 2009, 08:28:31 PM »

I've been stuck at a checkpoint with barely any health so many times now. I'm on Oni Alpha Site now. I'm not even worried about achievements, I just want to finish it on Legendary first. Then I will blaze through on Easy and get dem cheevs.

demi · « **Reply #243 on:** September 23, 2009, 08:34:48 PM »

Also since your friends cant die and they have infinite ammo, I just give them the beast weapons, like the Laser or Rocket Launcher. Then I stand back and let them take everyone out.

Jansen · « **Reply #244 on:** September 23, 2009, 08:43:53 PM »

the difficulty achievements don't stack?

game is fuck awesome btw

demi · « **Reply #245 on:** September 23, 2009, 08:44:53 PM »

wut. yes they do, they always have

Jansen · « **Reply #246 on:** September 23, 2009, 08:46:06 PM »

oh and amazon rocks! they refunded me $9 bucks. after discounts and credits towards another game i got this sucka for bout $30.

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #247 on:** September 23, 2009, 09:01:49 PM »

If they have this at costco for $51 I will buy this today

drew · « **Reply #248 on:** September 23, 2009, 09:38:37 PM »

me and fatalt are about to play legendary co op

anyone who wants to play and hear my disappointing voice message volta volta

MCD · « **Reply #249 on:** September 24, 2009, 12:00:42 AM »

terrible last level.

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #250 on:** September 24, 2009, 12:17:31 AM »

Yea, the last level is the only shitty one.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #251 on:** September 24, 2009, 12:35:24 AM »

cortana shitty? $:-\$

Vizzys · « **Reply #252 on:** September 24, 2009, 12:37:23 AM »

its not that bad

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #253 on:** September 24, 2009, 12:37:37 AM »

No. It's the same 'drive the truck through mobs of enemies' that we've seen in other Halo games, only with a really shit awesome backdrop. And then they cap it off at the end with a pretty cool firefight where you have to defend a building, sorta like the Fenix mansion in Gears 1. I enjoyed that part.

Tieno · « **Reply #254 on:** September 24, 2009, 04:07:32 AM »

Quote from: demi on September 23, 2009, 08:34:48 PM

Also since your friends cant die and they have infinite ammo, I just give them the beast weapons, like the Laser or Rocket Launcher. Then I stand back and let them take everyone out.

I've found that the Laser doesn't really work that well due to the charge time, it requires better aiming. Fuel Rod, Rocket Launcher and Brute Shot are the best weapons to give.

duckman2000 · « **Reply #255 on:** September 24, 2009, 04:09:18 AM »

Do you get lay waste to shit with flying machines at all? I'm on a laying waste to shit with flying machines kick, but there are precious few such games around. :'(

demi · « **Reply #256 on:** September 24, 2009, 04:13:23 AM »

Yes there's a level involving Banshees, but it's near the end

Tieno · « **Reply #257 on:** September 24, 2009, 05:44:54 AM »

Yeah, don't forget the banshee has a fuel rod cannon in campaign, with 'B' button.

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #258 on:** September 24, 2009, 10:52:41 AM »

Real gangstas use Bumper Jumper

Bocsius · « **Reply #259 on:** September 24, 2009, 07:35:59 AM »

These levels are really short. Through 5 flashbacks, I've probably spent 1.5 hours in game. More time than that backtracking through the hub world. I think there are three more, right? Something like that.

demi · « **Reply #260 on:** September 24, 2009, 07:01:30 AM »

I deleted my Halo install and now the load time is horrendous

cool breeze · « **Reply #261 on:** September 24, 2009, 07:25:05 PM »

Finished it. It was pretty great and didn't really feel like an expansion pack (like some people claimed). I thought there would be a lot more to the hub world, like it was supposed to be Far Cry 2-ish, but it was really just there to go from mission to mission. The night levels looked really damn good considering the Halo 3 visual standard, but the day time ones were ugly. Music in the hub world was great, kinda standard boring stuff for the other missions. General story and all that was pretty dumb.

Gonna try out firefight later, but I heard it's only with people on your friends list again.

Quote from: Bocsius on September 24, 2009, 07:35:59 AM

These levels are really short. Through 5 flashbacks, I've probably spent 1.5 hours in game. More time than that backtracking through the hub world. I think there are three more, right? Something like that.

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last one is long, like two put together

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Don Flamenco · « **Reply #262 on:** September 24, 2009, 08:03:33 PM »

So...this seems like it's kinda not worth it. the $20 gc deal is alright, but it even seems a little pricey with that.

cool breeze · « **Reply #263 on:** September 24, 2009, 08:28:25 PM »

I dunno. If you play the multiplayer, then it's worth it. Single player felt close enough to the length of Halo 3 that I wouldn't say it was too short.

Don Flamenco · « **Reply #264 on:** September 24, 2009, 08:31:02 PM »

people are saying the graphics are the same...is it that blurry sub-720p shit? Just trying to decide if I make this or MW2 my next fps.

demi · « **Reply #265 on:** September 24, 2009, 08:32:04 PM »

Then you arent doing much favors with MW2... they both are running the same engine.

Don Flamenco · « **Reply #266 on:** September 24, 2009, 08:33:50 PM »

but Halo 3 had a really shitty look to it, while COD4 actually stayed pretty crisp. the graphics are kind of a minor consideration though.

demi · « **Reply #267 on:** September 24, 2009, 08:53:04 PM »

WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO DO WHEN YOU GET VIRGIL

WHAT IS THAT BULLSHIT

WHAT

WHAT

WHAT

Bocsius · « **Reply #268 on:** September 24, 2009, 09:18:07 PM »

I assume by now you have jumped down the data shaft.

I'm on this mission, too.

demi · « **Reply #269 on:** September 24, 2009, 09:20:03 PM »

I got past it. It was the part where you just find the floating brain and you walk out and EVERYTHING GOES APESHIT

I made it into the door and jumped down to MORE FUCKING BUGS AHHHHHHHHHHH but I killed them now everything is quiet and I got a checkpoint

Bocsius · « **Reply #270 on:** September 24, 2009, 09:38:21 PM »

Well, at least the last two missions of the game didn't make me backtrack the daggum hub. On the last mission now.

drew · « **Reply #271 on:** September 24, 2009, 09:44:26 PM »

Quote from: Kranz Fafka on September 24, 2009, 08:31:02 PM

people are saying the graphics are the same...is it that blurry sub-720p shit? Just trying to decide if I make this or MW2 my next fps.

if you have to either get this or mw2 get mw2

demi · « **Reply #272 on:** September 24, 2009, 10:00:06 PM »

wow this last level does suck fat balls.

MCD · « **Reply #273 on:** September 24, 2009, 10:04:11 PM »

SHIELD IS DOWN

WELL STOP MOVING THEN YOU BITCH

demi · « **Reply #274 on:** September 24, 2009, 10:11:08 PM »

"what would make this game go out with a bang?"

"make you drive a warthog and have a distinguished mentally-challenged AI shoot?"

"better"

"make you drive a warthog and have a distinguished mentally-challenged AI shoot and have a distinguished mentally-challenged AI escort AND AND have them drive the same street followed by several hundred ghosts, banshees, wraiths, and everything else?"

"i think that's a wrap."

Bocsius · « **Reply #275 on:** September 24, 2009, 10:16:15 PM »

And fin.

demi · « **Reply #276 on:** September 24, 2009, 10:23:45 PM »

Wow, I wonder if it's just me that the game got much easier when I got the Scorpion

Oh I know why

because I know HOW TO FUCKING AIM AND SHOOT

And as luck would have it there's a Rocket Launcher at the building. Here you go, invincible ally, you take it

drew · « **Reply #277 on:** September 24, 2009, 10:38:23 PM »

lol dumi that part was easy

maybe you should play co op

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #278 on:** September 24, 2009, 10:40:56 PM »

I could see the overall experience being reduced if you played it alone. I loved it though.

demi · « **Reply #279 on:** September 24, 2009, 10:41:45 PM »

Are you supposed to destroy the two wraiths at the end? There are no enemies in sight and the game isnt progressing forward.

Quote from: drew on September 24, 2009, 10:38:23 PM

lol dumi that part was easy

maybe you should play co op

Er, I just played the entire game by myself on Legendary. Why would I play co-op?

drew · « **Reply #280 on:** September 24, 2009, 10:43:03 PM »

yeah i had a lot of fun with fagatT and veyuz, its much more frustrating to have to go back to a checkpoint over and over again in choke points when you can just gloss over them in co op, the only minus was fighting over hammers and tyler taking the elevator before me and then crushing me with it

demi · « **Reply #281 on:** September 24, 2009, 10:50:51 PM »

I just beat the game, though

I kinda freaked since the popups didnt come up, but I got the achievements anyway. Now I can go back on Easy and clean up

drew · « **Reply #282 on:** September 24, 2009, 10:51:42 PM »

Quote from: demi on September 24, 2009, 10:41:45 PM

Er, I just played the entire game by myself on Legendary. Why would I play co-op?

[20:43] <FatalT> solo and co-op have different completions

demi · « **Reply #283 on:** September 24, 2009, 10:53:02 PM »

You don't get anything for beating it on co-op, though.

Bocsius · « **Reply #284 on:** September 24, 2009, 10:53:26 PM »

Quote from: demi on September 24, 2009, 10:50:51 PM

I just beat the game, though

I kinda freaked since the popups didnt come up, but I got the achievements anyway. Now I can go back on Easy and clean up

For me, the achievements notice popped up after the credits, after the epilogue, and after I had been sitting back on the main menu for 2 minutes. Or rather after my system had been sitting there and I was surfing the internets on my laptop.

demi · « **Reply #285 on:** September 24, 2009, 10:55:58 PM »

Aw man there was a vid after the credits? I just skipped them. What happens?

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #286 on:** September 24, 2009, 11:00:17 PM »

It's on youtube.

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Johnson interviews the floating scrote

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Bocsius · « **Reply #287 on:** September 24, 2009, 11:02:33 PM »

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1 month after drop. ONI facility (can't remember the actual name). Captain is walking in with somebody whose head is hidden... turns out to be Sgt. Johnson. He throws a data chip or something at the engineer and says something like "the covenant is digging for something and you're going to tell me what it is."

Which totally throws off my sense of the timing of events in the games. I thought Halo 2 and Halo 3 were already done a month after the drop which means Johnson would have already been dead.

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drew · « **Reply #288 on:** September 24, 2009, 11:02:40 PM »

you shouldnt have told him it was on youtube

for the first time he had a reason to play a game for something other than achievements

demi · « **Reply #289 on:** September 24, 2009, 11:02:49 PM »

Oh ok, that was pretty dumb.

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #290 on:** September 24, 2009, 11:07:48 PM »

Quote from: Bocsius on September 24, 2009, 11:02:33 PM

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1 month after drop. ONI facility (can't remember the actual name). Captain is walking in with somebody whose head is hidden... turns out to be Sgt. Johnson. He throws a data chip or something at the engineer and says something like "the covenant is digging for something and you're going to tell me what it is."

Which totally throws off my sense of the timing of events in the games. I thought Halo 2 and Halo 3 were already done a month after the drop which means Johnson would have already been dead.
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I was thinking exactly the same thing, what the fuck is the timeline for these games?

And he threw a lighter.

Bocsius · « **Reply #291 on:** September 24, 2009, 11:48:49 PM »

In the "news to me" category, I saw on Xbox.com for ODST that the "Prepare to Drop" ODST 360 theme is free for gold members.

FatalT · « **Reply #292 on:** September 25, 2009, 01:10:56 AM »

Whoopee, just beat it on Legendary by myself.

drew · « **Reply #293 on:** September 25, 2009, 01:37:13 AM »

[youtube=560,345]xh_9QhRzJEs[/youtube]

cool breeze · « **Reply #294 on:** September 25, 2009, 02:05:51 AM »

firefight

added a bunch of people to my friends list so I can actually play it and played a bunch. On heroic, we were one away from, I assume, the end. It was one guy up against a crew of six brutes and chiefs. The best was when I destroyed a Hunter with a hammer.

demi · « **Reply #295 on:** September 25, 2009, 02:06:38 AM »

I just need to get the audio logs and then I'll do some firefight. Also would like to do a 4 player run for the Deja Vu achievement (Legendary Highway)

drew · « **Reply #296 on:** September 25, 2009, 02:07:12 AM »

Quote from: demi on September 25, 2009, 02:06:38 AM

I just need to get the audio logs and then I'll do some firefight. Also would like to do a 4 player run for the Deja Vu achievement (Legendary Highway)

shotgun

demi · « **Reply #297 on:** September 25, 2009, 06:43:32 AM »

I have every SP achievement except Good Samaritan (will probably just replay the game in co-op Legendary). So if anyone wants to do some Firefight for the Endure & 200k achievements, sign up here. This weekend is fine.

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #298 on:** September 25, 2009, 09:52:36 AM »

That Heroic Firefight achievement is going to be rough.

It's shit easy to get the 200k cheevs on Normal though, my group has a few of them already.

twerd · « **Reply #299 on:** September 25, 2009, 12:06:15 PM »

played this. i enjoyed it, but i'm disappointed that it's not more markedly different from the central franchise.

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Author Topic: Halo 3: OSTD (Read 25426 times)